Stack up the donuts, pack up the pies

[evewithanapple]

You knew it was coming. You could hear the almighty footfalls in the distance. You could see the water glass vibrating. I promised it lo, these many weeks ago and now I'm back to keep my promise. This is the EPIC TWIN PEAKS RECOMMENDATION POST OF EPICNESS.

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[my_daroga]

James is awful. James is tragic miscasting, and then a refusal to alter the plan when it became obvious he couldn't pull of James Dean. Now, it'd be interesting to watch someone who thought he was James Dean in this small town totally fail at it, but only if someone else was aware it was a failure. (Zuko, sort of?)

Moira Kelly is a totally different Donna, but I would have liked to have seen what she'd have done. But that might be totally hormonal, as I think she's gorgeous.

Laura is totally fascinating, and I don't know anyone who reacted the way I did. There's something about how she talks, how her face moves, that really bothers me, and I don't know what it is and that's really shallow. I do like FWWM, and it's not enough to ruin my enjoyment, but I wish I liked her more instinctively. And Laura/Audrey is a totally fascinating parallel. I keep thinking about Audrey and Laura at school, and the differences in their "images," vs what they were really up to or wanted inside.

Mclachlan did really scuttle that character, and it's a shame. Because I want to go back to not knowing anything about him being an asshat, and for the most part, watching Cooper I forget.

[evewithanapple]

I do not have the slightest clue who thought that James Marshall was a good idea. I mean, was he dating a crew member? Did he have connections? Did he sell his soul to Satan? WHY?

And the James Dean thing- I actually included that in my personal canon for him, because it's the only way he makes any sense to me. I think Bobby also sort of fits into the "would-be tough guy" slot because some of his dialogue is clearly influenced by it ("You're my girl, Shelly.") but at the same time, the writers were clearly aware that he was actually a dork. This is not the face of a guy who was being played straight as a bad boy.

My personal take on Audrey and Laura is that Laura was the pretender of the two- looking at how she was perceived versus her actual life- and Audrey was the one who couldn't or wouldn't fake it. So Ben- who wanted a Rockwell family for the image it would give him- went to Laura to find a more tractable daughter substitute (hence she she was the one looking after Johnny, and why he had that picture on his desk.) And then he started sleeping with her, which is a whole other level of ick to add to the father/daughter weirdness on this show. But Audrey is always the one in the show who could see through all the pretenses, which is probably what she meant when she said that she "understood [Laura] better than the rest-" she knew that her persona was a front. (Incidentally, I can't recommend this video highly enough- it's a continuation of the whole theme.)